Austin Osman Spare: The man art history left behind – in pictures

Austin Osman Spare: The man art history left behind – in pictures

Elephant and Castle's answer to Aubrey Beardsley and Salvador Dalí, Spare was an enfant terrible in Edwardian art circles but his stock plummeted and he faded into obscurity. Here, we take a look at some of his finest works

Friday 6 May 2011 07.11 EDT
First published on Friday 6 May 2011 07.11 EDT

Spare’s Portrait of the Artist (1907) shows him meditatively brooding over a table of imaginary bric-a-brac that reflects the contents of his mind